City Art Presents: Sugar House Review Release
Celebration—Ballam, Coulbrooke, Peppers, Hawkins, and White
Salt Lake Public Library Main Branch
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City UT 84111
Wednesday November 16th 7:00—9:00 P.M.
Celebrate
the release of recent issue of Sugar House Review with readings from Shannan
Ballam, Star Coulbrooke, Cathy Peppers, Jen Hawkins, and Mike White November
16th at the Salt Lake City Public Library at 7:00 P.M. as part of the City Art
Reading Series.
Shanan Ballam poetry has appeared in several journals, including Indiana
Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Cream City Review. Her
chapbook,The Red Riding Hood Papers, was released by Finishing Line Press
in 2010. She teaches poetry writing and academic writing at Utah State
University.
Star Coulbrooke directs the Utah State University Writing Center and is
responsible for Helicon West, a bi-monthly open readings/featured readers
series. Her poems are published in journals and anthologies such as Redactions:
Poetry and Poetics andA Cadence of Hooves: A Celebration of Horses.
Her poem, “How I Stopped Selling Life Insurance,” was named Editor’s Choice in
the anthology, New Poets of the American West. Star lives in
Smithfield, Utah, with her partner, Mitch, and their three labby-heelerish
dogs.
Cathy Peppers holds an MFA from Bowling Green State
University, a PhD from the University of Oregon and has taught at Idaho State
University since 1998. She lives with singer-songwriter Bob Picard on a
one-hundred-year-old farmstead with superfluous creatures, including a
blackjack of cats, two horses, a motley of chickens and a goat. Her poetry is
loosely collected in a few manuscripts; the poems here are from Arts &
Sciences (call it love), regressing forward and in loving detail.
Mike White poems have appeared in venues including Poetry, The New
Republic, The Iowa Review, The Antioch Review, The Threepenny Review, Denver
Quarterly, FIELD, Witness, Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. His work
has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize anthology on six occasions, most
recently by Sycamore Review. He is a graduate of the doctoral program
in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Utah, and a former
editor-in-chief of Quarterly West.
Jen Hawkins is an English/Philosophy double major
and Art minor at Idaho State University. Her writing and artwork have been
published widely and have received numerous awards. A recovering masochist, Jen
enjoys caffeining, shebeening (with all due moderation) and making stuff. She
loves Joe with all her bleeding heart.
Most featured readings
are followed by an open reading. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts
Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Catalyst,
the Salt Lake City Public Library, Xmission, and the Zoo, Arts, and Park Fund.
The event is free and open to the public. City Art is sponsored by the Utah Arts
Council, the Salt Lake City Arts Council, Zoo, Arts, and Parks, X-mission, and
audience donations.
Joel Long
